left wednesday carrying some 2,000 people, but that pace is not high enough, that is only about 110 people per flight on average, nowhere near the pace it needs to be if the pentagon hopes to hit its number of 5,000 to 9,000 people a day. and if that number doesn t go up, it may draw out the need for u.s. troops on the ground and that of course is relying on communication with the taliban, that communicationongoing, but it hasn t clearly been able to stabilize the situation at and around the airport. school boards are trying to keep kids safe where state governments won t. in florida the palm beach county school board voting in favor of a mask mandate. and it joins three other counties in defying governor desantis. many kids remain unvaccinated of course, but governor desantis says it should be up to the prnts parents to decide what happens to kids exposed to the coronavirus in school. i don t think to say anyone that was in like a hallway or in